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New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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“To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for F, M and J non-immigrant visas will be asked to adjust the privacy settings on all their social media profiles to ‘public’”, the official said. “The enhanced social media vetting will ensure we are properly screening every single person attempting to visit our country.”

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why any international students still want to go to the US is beyond me.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe for the unis?

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 0 points 18 hours ago

What's more lucrative than a fascist driven school that used to not suffer a brain drain out of the continent because of their obliging to fascist rulings, when you can chose basically anything else?